Human engineering has driven aircraft to extreme speeds from early jet-powered aircraft that surpassed 600 km/h to experimental hypersonic craft reaching Mach 10-plus. Throughout aviation history, there has been no shortage of aircraft challenging conventional wisdom concerning propulsion, aerodynamics, materials, altitude and handling qualities. Most of these aircraft were built to conduct research, gain new […]
Meet the Roc: The World’s Largest Plane Redefining Hypersonic Flight
Throughout the history of flight, there have been a lot of interesting machines that push what we can imagine, but the Stratolaunch Roc is on a level of its own. Larger than almost all aircraft ever made before it, this double-bodied giant is the newest advancement in aerospace. The Roc itself is the largest aircraft […]